Communication system and method of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-access for uplink from terminals to base-station

ABSTRACT

Embodiments of the present invention include a system and method of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-access for the uplink from terminals to a base-station. The system includes a base-station and multiple terminals. According to different spatial mapping modes, the base-station performs an optimization computation using an optimization function in order to obtain control information for controlling terminals; after receiving the control information, the user terminal controls the transmitting mode using this control information. The method includes the following operations: at the base-station, performing an optimization computation using an optimization function according to different spatial mapping modes respectively, in order to obtain control information for controlling terminals; at the user terminal, controlling a transmitting mode using the control information after receiving the above control information. An embodiment of the present invention can achieve a higher system capacity by balancing resource allocation among different users in a domain of transmission power, bandwidth and spatial channels.

PRIORITY

The present application claims priority to and incorporates by referencethe entire contents of Chinese priority document 200510135998.7, filedin China on Dec. 29, 2005.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a wireless communication field and moreparticularly to a communication system and method of dynamicspace-frequency-division of uplink from terminals to a base-station.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In the future 4G wireless communication systems, higher rate services ofsome users require a higher transmission rate and different mobileterminals which require different low rates need to share wirelessfrequency resources. However, a conflict between limited wirelessfrequency resources and increasing wireless communication linkrequirement is intensified.

The following references [1] to [6] analyze the signal multiplexingmodes required by the 4G wireless communication system. Amultiple-carrier transmission is recommended as a better 4G wirelesstechnique than a single-carrier transmission. At the same time, a systemsolution with a multi-input and multi-output using multiple antennas isone of the recommended features of the 4G wireless communication system.

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In a traditional OFDMA uplink system, since a fixed frequency band isused for communication and the different channel states and statisticcharacteristics of noise and interferences are not taken into account,the frequency resource cannot be fully utilized. A channel capacityprovided by the OFDMA system is far different from that deduced by TheInformation Theory.

With multi-antenna technology, different users can share a wirelesschannel by different spatial channels in a same subcarrier or usingdifferent subcarriers or the combination of these two. However, adding aresource for one user means reducing a resource for another user. Atypical case is that for users using different spatial channels in theco-frequency channels, when a power of one user increases, interferenceon other users will increase.

The following references [7] to [19] analyze multiple antennatechnologies, signal multiplexing modes, corresponding system capacitiesand methods for increasing system capacity. A common sense in thesereferences is that in a domain of transmission power, bandwidth andspatial channel, resource allocation should be balanced among differentusers in order to achieve a higher system capacity.

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Based on the above references, the present invention provides acommunication systems and method of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A communication system and method of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to base-station are described.In one embodiment, a communication system with dynamicspace-frequency-division multiple-access for uplink from terminals to abase-station, comprising a base-station and multiple terminals, wherein,the base-station, according to different spatial mapping modes, performsan optimization computation using an optimization function in order toobtain control information for controlling terminals; and the userterminal, after receiving the control information, controls thetransmitting mode using the control information.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a transmitter of the K^(th) terminal in acommunication system of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-accessfor uplink from terminals to a base-station;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing architecture of a receiver in a base-stationin the communication system of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station;

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 show simulation results of overall communicationcapacity of systems with different wireless communication uplink controlmodes.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

One embodiment of the present invention comprises a communication systemof dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-access for uplink fromterminals to a base-station.

Another embodiment of the present invention comprises a communicationmethod of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-access for uplinkfrom terminals to a base-station.

The communication system of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station includes abase-station and multiple terminals. According to different spatialmapping modes, the base-station performs an optimization computationusing an optimization function in order to obtain control informationfor controlling terminals; after receiving the control information, theuser terminal controls the transmitting mode using the controlinformation.

The communication method of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station includes thefollowing operations:

first, at the base-station, performing an optimization computation usingan optimization function according to different spatial mapping modes,in order to obtain control information for controlling terminals;

second, at the terminal, controlling a transmitting mode of atransmitter using the control information after receiving the controlinformation.

Compared with prior arts, the present invention can achieve a highersystem capacity and increase the utilization of frequency resource bybalancing resource allocation among different users in a domain oftransmission power, bandwidth and spatial channel. The result is thatthe contradiction between limited wireless frequency resources andincreasing wireless communication link requirement is effectivelymitigated.

It is the core consideration and theoretic base of the present inventionto balance resource allocation among different users in a domain oftransmission power, bandwidth and spatial channel mentioned in the abovereferences [7] to [19] and to achieve a higher system capacity. Thistheory is embodied in the computation and transmission control oftransmission parameters of the uplink multi-user and multi-carriersignals.

One solution of the present invention performs optimization computationand control of the parameters of all the user transmitters andbase-station receivers jointly and dynamically at realtime while theconstraints are the reasonably kept at a minimum (no matter theexplicitly or implicitly conditions). This solution is different fromthe commonly adopted technologies, which perform optimizationcomputation and control of partial parameters or of all parameters insequential steps. Optimization computation and control of partparameters or of all parameters in sequential steps assumes implicitlyconstraints so that the overall optimization cannot be achieved. Thetypical solutions include:

1) a mode with adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing withtransmitting antenna diversity and for allocating frequency resource tothe users sequentially and averagely and for allocating power todifferent users averagely; and

2) a method for allocating frequency resource to the users sequentiallybut allocating power to different users dynamically.

One proposed solution of the present invention can realize the parameteroptimization jointly, dynamically and with a minimum constraints and atthe same time, takes into account system implementation complexity etc.

For the nomadic link (slow movement link) with multi-antenna, anear-instantaneous dynamic power allocation, bandwidth allocation andspace subchannel allocation benefit for the realtime, and balanced useof the wireless communication resource of the uplink from terminals to abase-station and improve the frequency efficiency. Especially forbroadband multiple access, it is necessary to optimize the control ofparameters such as allocation of space and frequency subchannels and thecorresponding power in order to adapt to the channel quality ofdifferent subchannels dynamically used by different users and adapt tothe corresponding interference and noise statistic characteristicparameters so that the system capacity can be greatly improved. Thecommunication method of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-accessfor uplink from terminals to a base-station is one of the solutionsbased on the above knowledge.

At the same time, high system flexibility and good system resourceallocation are necessary factors for a high performance system while thepresent invention enhances these factors. In addition, the performanceof the communication system in this embodiment supports and providesdifferent priority settings for a variety of rates required by differentusers. For terminals equipped with different antennas, the solution inthis embodiment is a complicated problem. Thus, an embodiment of thepresent invention provides a control method, which supports good systemflexibility and fine granularity of wireless communication systemresource allocation and is adaptive to using different numbers ofmulti-antennas.

In addition to the above several characteristics, the adaptive antennaselection technology is an effective method to balance system complexityand system performance. Specifically, the processing complexity isreduced so that the feasibility of using a lot of antennas at thetransmitter or the receiver is enhanced. The solution of the presentinvention covers this technology and proposes the specific parametercomputation method for adaptive transmitter or receiver antennaselection technology.

The communication system and method of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station in thepresent invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

The present invention relates to the communication system and method ofdynamic space-frequency-division multiple-access for uplink fromterminals to a base-station. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a transmitterof the K^(th) terminal in a communication system of dynamicspace-frequency-division multiple-access for uplink from terminals to abase-station. This transmitter includes a forward-error-correction unit,control units A, B and C, multiple Inverse Discrete Fourier Transformunits, multiple RF front-ends and the transmitting antennas.

Specifically, after the user data of the K^(th) user pass theforward-error-correction unit, they will be series-parallel transformedand are mapped into predefined symbols.

The control unit A receives the control information from thebase-station. The control information is the transmitting controlinformation computed with the optimization function of the presentinvention.

Signal spatial mapping is a common knowledge for those skilled in theart. There are normally two modes: A) direct spatial mapping; B)eigen-vector beamforming.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the base-station performsthe optimization computation with a different optimization functionaccording to the two modes respectively and obtains the transmittingcontrol information controlling terminals.

A) as for the spatial mapping mode with direct spatial mapping, theoptimization function is described in equation (1): $\begin{matrix}{\left\{ {T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {\arg{\max\limits_{\{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,j}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

where T_([k,i]) represents the set of the transmitting antennas used bythe K^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier;

R_([i]) represents the set of the receiving antennas used by thebase-station on the i^(th) subcarrier;

C_(k) represents the set of the subcarriers used by the K^(th) terminal;

P_([k,i]) represents the transmitting power of the K^(th) terminal onthe i^(th) subcarrier.

It can be seen that for the spatial mapping mode with direct spatialmapping, the control information to be computed by the base-stationincludes T_([k,i]), R_([i]), C_(k), P_([k,i]) and adaptive modulationmode parameter l.

In the above equation, γ_(k) is the priority coefficient of the K^(th)user.

1) when the channel has a full column rank: $\begin{matrix}{\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{\log\left( {\det\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)\quad\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)^{- 1}}} \right)} \right)}}} & \left( {2a} \right)\end{matrix}$

in the equation (2), I_(|R) _([i]) _(|) represents the unit matrix(square matrix) and the size of the matrix is |R_([i])|;

{tilde over (H)}_([k,i]) is the submatrix corresponding to the antennaselection according to the channel matrix, K_(z) _([i]) is thecovariance matrix of the noise on the i^(th) subcarrier, {tilde over(H)}_([j,i]) ^(H) is the conjugate transpose of the {tilde over(H)}_([j,i]).

2) when the channel is not a full column rank: $\begin{matrix}{\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}} \right)}} & \left( {2b} \right)\end{matrix}$

the constraints are $\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} \leq F}\end{matrix} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix} & (3)\end{matrix}$

where P_(k) represents the overall power of each subcarrier of theK^(th) user;

F represents the constraint value of the number of subcarriers.

B) as for the spatial mapping mode with eigen-vector beamforming, theoptimization function is described in equation (4): $\begin{matrix}{\left\{ {R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {\arg{\max\limits_{\{{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}} & (4)\end{matrix}$

For the spatial mapping mode with eigen-vector beamforming, the controlinformation to be computed by the base-station only includes R_([i]),C_(k), p_([k,i]) and adaptive modulation mode parameter l.

R_([i]) represents the set of the receiving antennas used by thebase-station on the i^(th) subcarrier;

C_(k), represents the set of the subcarriers used by the K^(th)terminal;

P_([k,i]) represents the transmitting power of the K^(th) terminal onthe i^(th) subcarrier.

It can be seen that for the spatial mapping mode with eigen-vectorbeamforming, the control information to be computed by the base-stationonly includes R_([i]), C_(k), P_([k,i]) and adaptive modulation modeparameter l.

In the above equation, γ_(k) is the priority coefficient of the Kthuser.

1) when the channel has a full column rank: $\begin{matrix}{\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{\log\left( {\det\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\left( {H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)^{- 1}}} \right)} \right)}}} & \left( {5a} \right)\end{matrix}$

in the equation (5), I_(|R) _([i]) _(|) represents the unit matrix(square matrix) and the size of the matrix is |R_([i])|;

{tilde over (H)}_([k,i]) is the channel matrix of the K^(th) terminal onthe i^(th) subcarrier, K_(z) _([i]) is the covariance matrix of thenoise on the i^(th) subcarrier, K_(x) _([j,i]) is the covariance matrixof j^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier signal, {tilde over(H)}_([j,i]) ^(H) is the conjugate transpose of the {tilde over(H)}_([j,i]).

2) when the channel is not a full column rank: $\begin{matrix}{\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{J \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}} \right)}} & \left( {5b} \right)\end{matrix}$

the constraints are: $\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{{Tr}\left( K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right)}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} < F}\end{matrix} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix} & (6)\end{matrix}$

where Tr represents the matrix trace computation;

P_(k) represents the constraints value of the overall power of eachsubcarrier of the K^(th) user;

F represents the constraint value of the number of subcarriers.

When the system adopts the spatial mapping mode with eigen-vectorbeamforming, K_(x) _([k,i]) is obtained by using the following equation(7) in the control unit A:K_(X) _([k,i]) =v_([i]) _(k) v_([i]) _(k) ^(H)  (7)

where v_([i]) _(k) is the beamforming vector of the i^(th) subcarrier ofthe K^(th) user and v_([i]) _(k) ^(H) is the conjugation inversion ofthe beamforming vector v_([i]) _(k) .

The control unit A of the user terminal can use the channel informationand get the beamforming vector v_([i]) _(k) by singular decomposition ofthe channel matrix, where v_([i]) _(k) represents the beamforming vectorv_([i]) _(k) of the i^(th) subcarrier of the K^(th) user and is obtainedby computing the following operation:H_([i]k)=U_([i]k)Λ_([i]k)V_([i]k) ^(H)  (8)

where H_([i]k) is the channel matrix of the K^(th) terminal on thei^(th) subcarrier, U_([i]k) is the left unitary matrix of the channelmatrix decomposition, Λ_([i]k) is the singular value diagonal matrix andV_([i]k) ^(H) is the right unitary matrix of the channel matrixdecomposition.

The above is the optimization function used by the base-station tocompute the control information, and at the same time, the base-stationcomputes the signal/noise power ratio (SINR_(o) ^(b) is the ratio ofsignal to the noise and interference per bit). According to the errorrate requirement of the system, the modulation modes of the signal arechosen according to the following equations:

a) for 4QAM: $\begin{matrix}{P_{4{QAM}}^{b} = {Q\left( \sqrt{\frac{{SINR}_{o}^{b}}{2}} \right)}} & (9) \\{{Q(x)} = {\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}{\int_{x}^{\infty}{{\mathbb{e}}^{{- y^{2}}/2}{\mathbb{d}y}}}}} & \quad\end{matrix}$

where

b) for 16QAM: $\begin{matrix}{P_{16{QAM}}^{b} = {\frac{1}{2}\left( {{Q\left( \sqrt{\frac{{SINR}_{o}^{b}}{10}} \right)} + {Q\left( {3\sqrt{\frac{{SINR}_{o}^{b}}{10}}} \right)}} \right)}} & (10)\end{matrix}$

c) for 64QAM: $\begin{matrix}{P_{64\quad{QAM}}^{b} = {\frac{2}{3}\left( {Q\left( \sqrt{1.8\quad{SINR}_{o}^{b}} \right)} \right)}} & (11)\end{matrix}$

The modulation mode which has the largest transmission rate and can meetthe system error rate requirement will be chosen and the adaptivemodulation mode parameter l is determined and sent to the control unit Aof the user terminal.

The specific process of the user terminal controlling with the abovecontrol information will be explained in detail.

In the present invention, the feedback of the control information can berealized by any common technologies. Generally, the control informationis fed back in this way: the control information is coded and put in thespecific control frame and afterwards, the control frame is processedsuch as being channel coded and modulated, the signal then isup-converted to a radio frequency and sent to the user terminal.

Accordingly, after the user terminal receives the control informationfrom the base-station, it will down-convert the RF signal of thereceived signal to the baseband and then performs detection and decodingin order to obtain the control information and then the controlinformation is sent to the control unit A.

The control unit A of the user terminal sends the parameter C_(k) andthe adaptive modulation mode parameter l to the control unit B; andsends the parameter p_([k,i]) to the control unit C.

It should be noted that when the system adopts the spatial mapping modewith direct spatial mapping, the parameter T_([k,i]) will be sent to thecontrol unit C as the control information.

When the system adopts the spatial mapping mode with eigen-vectorbeamforming, the control unit A will compute the beamformingeigen-vector v_([i]) _(k) by using the channel information and will sendv_([i]) _(k) to the control unit C as the control information. Whilewhen the system adopts the spatial mapping mode with direct spatialmapping, the control unit A will not compute the beamformingeigen-vector v_([i]) _(k) .

Then the control unit B will modulate the signal using the receivedadaptive modulation mode parameter l as the control information and themodulation modes can be any of the above QPSk, 16-QAM and 64-QAM. Themodulation mode adopted in the present invention is well known to thoseskilled in the art and will not be described in detail.

At the same time, the control unit B allocates the symbols from theforward-error-correction unit to different subcarriers according to theparameter C_(k).

The control unit C includes power allocation units each corresponding toone of the multiple signal streams from the control unit B (each signalstream is on one subcarrier), and a spatial mapping unit, which can bean eigen-vector beamforming unit or a direct spatial mapping unit.

Each power allocation unit performs the signal power adjusting on signalstream on the corresponding subcarrier according to the parameterP_([k,i]) and sends the processed signal stream to the spatial mappingunit. The power allocation ratio obeys the parameter P_([k,i]).

The spatial mapping unit obtains the signal streams from each powerallocation unit and performs the spatial mapping processing according todifferent spatial mapping modes and maps the signal streams on differentsubcarriers to the corresponding antennas.

Specifically, the spatial mapping unit maps the signal streams ondifferent subcarriers according to the direct mapping mode or theeigen-vector beamforming mapping mode.

i) If the direct mapping mode is adopted, the control unit C receivesT_([k,i]) and maps the signal streams on different subcarriers to theantennas according to T_([k,i]). At this time, the number of the signalstreams is the same as the number of the transmitting antennas and thenumber of the signal streams is determined according to the parameterT_([k,i]).

ii) If the eigen-vector beamforming mapping mode is adopted, the controlunit C performs the signal processing of the eigen-vector beamforming onsignal streams on different subcarriers according to v_([i]) _(k) . Atthis time, the spatial mapping processing of the signal streams isdetermined according to the parameter v_([i]) _(k) .

Then the Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform units generate the signalfor orthogonal frequency division multiple-access, and then insert thecyclic prefix in the modulated signal.

Then each RF front-end among the multiple RF front-ends up-converts thecorresponding baseband signal with cyclic prefix to create thecorresponding RF signal, which will be transmitted from thecorresponding transmitting antenna.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing architecture of a receiver in a base-stationin a communication system of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station.

Firstly, the RF front-end of the base-station down-converts the signalreceived from the antenna and gets the corresponding baseband signal.

Then, the Cyclic-Prefix-Remove-and-Fast-Fourier-Transform unit removesthe cyclic prefix of each signal and Fourier-transforms each signal(each corresponding to one subcarrier).

In the processing unit A shown in FIG. 2, the signals after the Fouriertransformation are mapped according to R_([i]) and then the mappingresults are sent to the corresponding beamforming receiving units in theprocessing unit B. The processing unit C shown in FIG. 2 performsmultiuser signal detection on the subcarriers from the beamformingreceiving units respectively.

Then the multiuser detection results of different subcarriers areparallel-series transformed in the parallel-series transform unit. Thesignals of different users are decoded in the FEC decoding unitrespectively, then the signal process is finished. The modulation modeparameter l of different space frequency channel of each user and thesubset R_([i]) of receiving antennas of different subcarriers are thecontrol variables adopted by the base-station receiver when it processesthe signals.

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 show simulation results of overall system capacitywhen a wireless communication uplink is in different control methods.They show the overall communication capacity of the system under thecellular wireless communication uplink control method described in thepresent invention and computed with a Monte Carlo method. They also showthe comparison of the system capacity with that under other controlmethods.

The simulation computation compares the four kinds communication systemmechanisms, including the present invention. The notation, DSFDMA,represents the preferred communication method in the present invention,which is the dynamic space-frequency division multiple-accesscommunication adopting the beamforming computation recommended in thepresent invention. The notation, DSFDMA with optimal BF, represents thedynamic space-frequency division multiple-access of the presentinvention adopting an optimum beamforming computation.

Adaptive OFDMA with BF (adaptive orthogonal frequency divisionmultiple-access with beamforming method) represents the scenario whenthe multicarrier transmission adopts the beamforming with adaptive powercontrol. The difference is that this solution allocates frequencyresource to users equally and sequentially though it employs an adaptivepower control, while the present invention allocates the frequency andspatial resource and the power jointly and in the same time takes intoaccount the adaptive antenna selection method of different subcarriers.

Conventional OFDMA with Tx Diversity (adaptive orthogonal frequencydivision multiple-access with transmitting antenna diversity) representsallocating frequency resource to the users sequentially and equally andallocating equal power to different users.

In FIG. 3, the simulated system capacity is computed under the followingscenario: the number of the users is 10, the number of the subcarriersis 10, the priority of the users is (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,)(i.e. all users have the same priority), the number of the transmittingantennas of each user is 3, the number of the receiving antennas of thebase-station is 4.

In FIG. 4, the simulated system capacity is computed with the followingscenario: the number of the users is 12, the number of the subcarriersis 8, the priority of the users is (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,) (i.e.all users have the same priority), the number of the transmittingantennas of each user is 3, the number of the receiving antennas of thebase-station is 4.

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 show that the proposed communication method adoptingthe simplified beamforming computation method recommended by the presentinvention is asymptotically close to the one adopting the optimumbeamforming computation method. The simplified beamforming computationmethod benefits the feasibility of the system so that it can well handlethe fast changes of the channel, noise and interference. Thecharacteristics of the present invention will be more obvious when thenumbers of the users and subcarriers are comparable or when the numberof the users is larger than that of the subcarriers. For the sameantenna configuration, the overall system capacity under the controlmethod of the present invention is higher than those of the followingtwo methods: 1) a method for allocating frequency resource to the usersequally and sequentially at any transmission time interval and withadaptive power control for different subcarrier; 2) a method allocatingfrequency resource to the users sequentially and equally and allocatingsame power to different users.

The present invention takes into account and makes use of thecharacteristics of uplink multiuser space-time channel and statisticalinformation of interference or noise. The signal transmitting controlmethod adaptively and dynamically adjusts according to differentspatial-temporal channel conditions and makes a full use of thediversity of channels due to multi-users, multi-carriers andmulti-antennas. The solution of the present invention enhances theoverall system capacity and enables the cellular wireless communicationuplink to support more users at the same time.

At the same time, the present invention provides the function ofpriority setting for users and improves the system flexibility. Thisfunction provides the control layer above the physical layer with aflexible priority control port.

Further, the adaptivity of the wireless uplink transmission method isfeasible to the system for the non-licensed spectrum or needing flexiblefrequency adjustment.

1. A communication system of dynamic space-frequency-divisionmultiple-access for uplink from terminals to a base-station, comprisinga base-station and multiple terminals, wherein, the base-station,according to different spatial mapping modes, performs an optimizationcomputation using an optimization function in order to obtain controlinformation for controlling terminals; the user terminal, afterreceiving the control information, controls the transmitting mode usingthe control information.
 2. The system according to claim 1, whereinwhen the spatial mapping mode is the direct mapping, the followingequation is used to perform optimization computation:${\left\{ {T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {{{ar}g}{\max\limits_{\{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}},$where T_([k,i]) represents the set of the transmitting antennas used bythe K^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier; R_([i]) represents the setof the receiving antennas used by the base-station on the i^(th)subcarrier; C_(k) represents the set of the subcarriers used by theK^(th) terminal; P_([k,i]) represents the transmitting power of theK^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier; γ_(k) is the prioritycoefficient of the K^(th) user, when the channel has a full column rank:${\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{\log\begin{pmatrix}{\det\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} +} \right.}} \right.} \\\left. \left. {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}} \right)^{- 1} \right)\end{pmatrix}}}},$ I_(|R) _([i]) _(|) represents the unit matrix (squarematrix) and the size of the matrix is |R_([i])|; {tilde over(H)}_([k,i]) is the submatrix corresponding to the antenna selectionaccording to the channel matrix; K_(z) _([i]) is the covariance matrixof the noise on the i^(th) subcarrier; {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]) ^(H) isthe conjugate transpose of the {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]), when thechannel is not a full column rank:${\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}} \right)}},$the constraints are $\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} \leq F} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix},$ where P_(k) represents the overall power of eachsubcarrier of the K^(th) user; F represents the constraint value of thenumber of subcarriers.
 3. The system according to claim 2, wherein thecontrol information comprises: a set of transmitting antennas used bythe each terminal on each subcarrier, a set of receiving antennas usedby a base-station on each subcarrier, a set of subcarriers used by eachterminal, transmitting power of each terminal on each subcarrier and amodulation mode used by each terminal on each subcarrier.
 4. The systemaccording to claim 1, wherein when the spatial mapping mode is theeigen-vector beamforming, the following equation is used to performoptimization computation:${\left\{ {R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {\arg{\max\limits_{\{{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}},$R_([i]) represents the set of the receiving antennas used by thebase-station on the i^(th) subcarrier; C_(k) represents the set of thesubcarriers used by the K^(th) terminal; P_([k,i]) represents thetransmitting power of the K^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier;γ_(k) is the priority coefficient of the K^(th) user, when the channelhas a full column rank:$\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\log}$$\quad{\left( {\det\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\left( {H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)^{- 1}}} \right)} \right),}$I_(|R) _([i]) _(|) represents the unit matrix (square matrix) and thesize of the matrix is |R_([i])|; {tilde over (H)}_([k,i]) is the channelmatrix of the K^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier; K_(z) _([i]) isthe covariance matrix of the noise on the i^(th) subcarrier; K_(x)_([j,i]) is the covariance matrix of the jth terminal signal on thei^(th) subcarrier; {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]) ^(H) is the conjugatetranspose of the {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]), when the channel is not afull column rank:$\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}} \right)}$the constraints are: $\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{{Tr}\left( K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right)}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} < F} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix},$ where Tr represents the matrix trace computation; P_(k)represents the constraints value of the overall power of each subcarrierof the K^(th) user; F represents the constraint value of the number ofsubcarriers.
 5. The system according to claim 4, wherein, when thespatial mapping mode is the eigen-vector beamforming, the controlinformation comprises: a set of receiving antennas used by abase-station on each subcarrier, a set of subcarriers used by eachterminal, transmitting power of each terminal on each subcarrier and amodulation mode used by each terminal on each subcarrier.
 6. The systemaccording to claim 3, wherein the transmitter comprises aforward-error-correction unit, a first control unit, a second controlunit, a third control unit, multiple Inverse Discrete Fourier Transformunits, multiple RF front-ends and transmitting antennas each connectedwith a corresponding RF front-end, the first control unit is forreceiving the control information from the base-station and fortransmitting the set of the subcarriers and the adaptive modulation modeto the second control unit, and for transmitting the transmitting powerof the terminal on each subcarrier and the set of the transmittingantennas on each subcarrier to the third control unit; theforward-error-correction unit is for forward-error-correcting the userdata, series-parallel transforming the user data and mapping the userdata into predefined symbols; the second control unit is for modulatingthe symbols from the forward-error-correction unit respectivelyaccording to the control information received from the first controlunit, for allocating the symbols from the forward-error-correction unitto different subcarriers according to the control information receivedfrom the first control unit; the third control unit comprises multiplepower allocation units and a spatial mapping unit, wherein the powerallocation units are for performing the signal power adjusting on signalstreams on the corresponding subcarriers according to the controlinformation received from the first control unit, and the spatialmapping unit is for mapping the power adjusted signal streams ondifferent subcarriers to the corresponding antennas according to thecontrol information received from the first control unit; each of theInverse Discrete Fourier Transform units generates the signal fororthogonal frequency division multiple-access on the signal streams,which are transmitted from the corresponding antennas and inputted fromthe third control unit, and then adds the cyclic prefix to the modulatedsignal; each RF front-end among the multiple RF front-ends receives thecorresponding baseband signal with cyclic prefix and up-converts thereceived baseband signal to the corresponding RF signal, which istransmitted from the corresponding transmitting antenna.
 7. The systemaccording to claim 5, wherein the transmitter comprises aforward-error-correction unit, a first control unit, a second controlunit, a third control unit, multiple Inverse Discrete Fourier Transformunits, multiple RF front-ends and transmitting antennas each connectedwith a corresponding RF front-end, the first control unit is forreceiving the control information from the base-station and for sendingthe set of the subcarriers and the adaptive modulation mode to thesecond control unit as the control information, and for computing thebeamforming vector according to the channel information and for sendingthe beamforming vector and the transmitting power of the terminal oneach subcarrier to the third control unit as the control information;the forward-error-correction unit is for forward-error-correcting theuser data of the terminal, series-parallel transforming the user dataand mapping the forward-error-corrected user data into predefinedsymbols; the second control unit is for modulating the symbols from theforward-error-correction unit respectively according to the controlinformation from the first control unit, for allocating the symbols fromthe forward-error-correction unit to different subcarriers according tothe control information from the first control unit; the third controlunit comprises multiple power allocation units and a spatial mappingunit, wherein the power allocation units are for performing the signalpower adjusting on signal streams on the corresponding subcarriersaccording to the control information from the first control unit, andthe spatial mapping unit is for performing the eigen-vector beamformingon the power adjusted signal streams on different subcarriers accordingto the control information from the first control unit; each of theInverse Discrete Fourier Transform units generates the signal fororthogonal frequency division multiple-access, which are transmittedfrom the corresponding antennas and inputted from the third controlunit, and then adds the cyclic prefix to the modulated signal; each RFfront-end among the multiple RF front-ends up-converts the correspondingbaseband signal with cyclic prefix to the corresponding RF signal, whichis transmitted from the corresponding transmitting antenna.
 8. Acommunication method of dynamic space-frequency-division multiple-accessfor uplinks from terminals to a base-station, comprising the followingoperations: at the base-station, performing an optimization computationusing an optimization function according to different spatial mappingmodes, in order to obtain control information for controlling terminals;at the terminal, controlling a transmitting mode using the controlinformation after receiving the control information.
 9. The methodaccording to claim 8, wherein when the spatial mapping mode is thedirect mapping, the following equation is used to perform optimizationcomputation:${\left\{ {T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {\arg{\max\limits_{\{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack},R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}},$T_([k,i]) represents the set of the transmitting antennas used by theK^(th) terminal on the 1 subcarrier; R_([i]) represents the set of thereceiving antennas used by the base-station on the i^(th) subcarrier;C_(k) represents the set of the subcarriers used by the K^(th) terminal;p_([k,i]) represents the transmitting power of the K^(th) terminal onthe i^(th) subcarrier; γ_(k) is the priority coefficient of the K^(th)user, when the channel has a full column rank:${\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{\log\left( {\det\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)^{- 1}}} \right)} \right)}}},$I_(|R) _([i]) ^(|) represents the unit matrix (square matrix) and thesize of the matrix is |R_([i])|; {tilde over (H)}_([k,i]) is thesubmatrix corresponding to the antenna selection according to thechannel matrix; K_(z) _([i]) is the covariance matrix of the noise onthe i^(th) subcarrier; {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]) ^(H) is the conjugatetranspose of the {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]), when the channel is not afull column rank:${\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z{(i)}}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}{\det\left( {{\overset{\sim}{K}}_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}}\quad + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}\left( {\frac{p_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{T_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}{\overset{\sim}{H}}_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)}} \right)}} \right)}},$the constraints are $\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} \leq F}\end{matrix} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix},$ where P_(k) represents the overall power of eachsubcarrier of the K^(th) user; F represents the constraint value of thenumber of subcarriers.
 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein thecontrol information comprises: a set of transmitting antennas used bythe each terminal on each subcarrier, a set of receiving antennas usedby a base-station on each subcarrier, a set of subcarriers used by eachterminal, transmitting power of each terminal on each subcarrier and amodulation mode used by each terminal on each subcarrier.
 11. The methodaccording to claim 8, wherein when the spatial mapping mode is theeigen-vector beamforming, the following equation is used to performoptimization computation.${\left\{ {R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right\} = {\arg{\max\limits_{\{{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack},C_{k},p_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}\}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N}{\gamma_{j}\zeta_{j}}}}}},$R_([i]) represents the set of the receiving antennas used by thebase-station on the i^(th) subcarrier; C_(k) represents the set of thesubcarriers used by the K^(th) terminal; p_([k,i]) represents thetransmitting power of the K^(th) terminal on the i^(th) subcarrier;γ_(k) is the priority coefficient of the K^(th) user, when the channelhas a full column rank:${\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{\log\left( {\det\begin{matrix}\left( {I_{R_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + \left( {H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}^{H}} \right)} \right. \\\left. \left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)^{- 1} \right)\end{matrix}} \right)}}},$ I_(|R) _([i]) _(|) represents the unit matrix(square matrix) and the size of the matrix is |R_([i])|; {tilde over(H)}_([k,i]) is the channel matrix of the K^(th) terminal on the i^(th)subcarrier; K_(z) _([i]) is the covariance matrix of the noise on thei^(th) subcarrier; K_(x) _([j,i]) is the covariance matrix of the jthterminal signal on the i^(th) subcarrier; {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]) ^(H)is the conjugate transpose of the {tilde over (H)}_([j,i]), when thechannel is not a full column rank:$\zeta_{k} \cong {\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}\left( {\log\quad\frac{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{j \in U_{i}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}{\det\left( {K_{z_{\lbrack i\rbrack}} + {\sum\limits_{{j \in U_{i}},{j \neq k}}{H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}K_{x_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}}H_{\lbrack{j,i}\rbrack}^{H}}}} \right)}} \right)}$the constraints are: $\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{\sum\limits_{i \in C_{k}}{{Tr}\left( K_{x_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}} \right)}} \leq P_{k}} \\{{C_{k}} < F}\end{matrix} \\{{R_{i}} \geq {\sum\limits_{k \in U_{i}}{T_{\lbrack{k,i}\rbrack}}}}\end{matrix},$ where Tr represents the matrix trace computation; P_(k)represents the constraints value of the overall power of each subcarrierof the K^(th) user; F represents the constraint value of the number ofsubcarriers.
 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein, when thespatial mapping mode is the eigen-vector beamforming, the controlinformation comprises: a set of receiving antennas used by abase-station on each subcarrier, a set of subcarriers used by eachterminal, transmitting power of each terminal on each subcarrier and amodulation mode used by each terminal on each subcarrier.
 13. The methodaccording to claim 10, wherein the second step comprises the followingsteps: forward-error-correcting the user data of the terminal,series-parallel transforming the user data and mapping theforward-error-corrected user data into predefined symbols; modulatingthe symbols respectively according to the control information, andallocating the predefined symbols to different subcarriers according tothe control information; performing the signal power adjusting on signalstreams at the corresponding subcarriers according to the controlinformation, and mapping the power adjusted signal streams on differentsubcarriers to the corresponding antennas according to the controlinformation; performing the orthogonal multicarrier modulation on thesignal streams, which are mapped to different transmitting antennas, andthen adding the cyclic prefix to the modulated signal; up-convertingeach signal stream with cyclic prefix to a corresponding RF signal,which is transmitted from the corresponding transmitting antenna. 14.The method according to claim 12, wherein the second step comprises thefollowing steps: forward-error-correcting the user data of the terminal,series-parallel transforming the user data and mapping theforward-error-corrected user data into predefined symbols; modulatingthe symbols respectively according to the control information, i.e. theadaptive modulation mode, and allocating the symbols to differentsubcarriers according to the control information, i.e. the set of thesubcarriers used by the terminal; performing the signal power adjustingon signal streams on the corresponding subcarriers according to thecontrol information, and performing the eigen-vector beamforming on thepower adjusted signal streams on different subcarriers according to thecontrol information; performing the orthogonal multicarrier modulationon the signal streams respectively, which are processed by thebeamforming, and then adding the cyclic prefix to the modulated signal;up-converting each signal stream inserted with a cyclic prefix to acorresponding RF signal, which is transmitted from the correspondingtransmitting antenna.